{"topic_id":"kr_pharmacy_act_vet_drug","category":"kr-vet-drug","context":"---\ntopic_id: kr_pharmacy_act_vet_drug\ncategory: kr-vet-drug\ntitle: \"South Korea Pharmacy Act (약사법) — Veterinary Drug Compounding by Veterinarians\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Pharmacy Act (약사법), law.go.kr first-hand text, pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/kr-vet-drug/pharmacy_act.txt\nsource_type: statute_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-24\ntokens_estimated: 280\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 2\n---\n\n# South Korea Pharmacy Act (약사법) — Veterinary Drug Compounding by Veterinarians\n\nSource: Pharmacy Act (약사법), Republic of Korea, first-hand text from the Ministry of Government Legislation national law portal (law.go.kr), rendered via Seoul relay Playwright on 2026-07-24. Status: in force.\n\nUnder the Pharmacy Act, the compounding of drugs is generally reserved to pharmacists and Korean-medicine practitioners. Chapter 4 (Pharmacies and Compounding) and Article 23 (Compounding of Drugs) contain a specific carve-out: a veterinarian (수의사) may personally compound veterinary drugs (동물용 의약품) for their own treatment use. The claim below is a verbatim Korean sentence from Article 23 as published on law.go.kr.\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `자신이 치료용으로 사용하는 한약 및 한약제제를 자신이 직접 조제하거나 수의사가 자신이 치료용으로 사용하는 동물용 의약품을 자신이 직접 조제하는 경우에는 제23조제1항 및 제2항의 개정규정에도 불구하고 이를 조제할 수 있다.` (Notwithstanding the amended provisions of Article 23(1) and (2), a person who directly compounds crude drugs/herbal preparations for their own treatment use, or a veterinarian who directly compounds veterinary drugs (동물용 의약품) for their own treatment use, may compound them.)\n- `제23조(의약품 조제) ①약사 및 한약사가 아니면 의약품을 조제할 수 없으며, 약사 및 한약사는 각각 면허 범위에서 의약품을 조제하여야 한다.` (Article 23 (Compounding of Drugs) (1): a pharmacist and a herbalist may not compound drugs otherwise, and shall compound drugs within their respective licence scope.)\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/kr-vet-drug/pharmacy_act.txt` — first-hand Pharmacy Act text (law.go.kr), pulled 2026-07-24 via Seoul relay Playwright.\n","sources":[],"tokens_estimated":200,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}